Pictured: Luxury home left dangling over edge of cliff after land falls into lake

House in danger of plunging into water after landslide takes part of its foundations

The house on the edge of Lake Whitney, Texas, is set to fall into the water

A lakeside house was hanging from a cliff and on the brink of collapsing into the water below after the ground under its foundation eroded.

The house, worth £475,989 ($800,000), is on Lake Whitney, about 75 miles south west of Dallas, Texas. It is precariously perched about 75 feet in the air today – after a massive piece of land under it fell into the lake on Tuesday night.

Mark Wilson, chief deputy for the Hill County Sheriff's Department said: "The earth started to give way in February and, since then , about 50 yards of territory that separated it from the water's edge has eroded.

"When they built the house, it looked like a safe area, away from the bluff. There is just a lot of the bluff that gave way."

The owners, who use it as a second home, have abandoned the property and the area has been cleared.